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Today's NYTimes Best 1176 Film was

Payday (1973) with Rip Torn.

This movie, a low budget Nashville, is all about Rip Torn who stars as a country western star about to make it big. Or not.

He is a nasty egomaniac who subsists on pills and booze and treats people as disposable.

He is a crybaby and a child-man. Not the same thing.

The surroundings seem very real. Small towns, country roads, music people.

Torn is transfixing.

You can see the booze and dope taking hold.

He becomes a monster and he wasn't all that neat a guy sober.

I know this sounds hard to take but there is some funny stuff interspersed with the tough stuff.

A lot of the people in it are real musicians, fans, and business professionals.

I liked it a lot.

I will give it a 3 out of Netflix5.

Labels: best films